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The 14 pages that link to Fossil calibration, each with the reason it gives.

• Molecular clockRelated: Fossils can provide minimum or bounded ages for clock estimates.

• Crown groupRelated: A fossil's placement inside a crown group can provide a minimum age for that group's origin.

• FeliformiaRelated: Feliform divergence dates depend partly on how fossils are assigned to branches.

• SauropsidaRelated: Dating sauropsid origins depends on how fossils are assigned to branches and geological ages.

• Angiosperm phylogenyRelated: It connects branching order to estimates of when flowering-plant lineages arose.

• EutheriaRelated: Eutherian fossils provide minimum-age constraints for genetic estimates of lineage history.

• PercomorphaRelated: The placement and dating of fossils influence estimates for percomorph origins and diversification.

• Arthropod phylogenyRelated: Fossils anchor estimates of when arthropod lineages separated, not just how they are related.

• Arachnid phylogenyRelated: Fossils help place minimum ages on branches in arachnid evolutionary trees.

• Canid evolutionRelated: Canid divergence estimates depend on how securely fossil ages and identities are established.

• AiluridaeRelated: Ailurid fossils can constrain dates for branches within musteloid evolution.

• GraecopithecusRelated: The genus’s age matters to estimates of when the human and chimpanzee lineages separated.

• PelagornithidaeRelated: Pelagornithid fossils can inform when major bird lineages and traits appeared.

• MadtsoiidaeRelated: Madtsoiid fossils can affect estimates of when major snake lineages arose.